Antonio Zeccola is a man whose life-long passion for film has lead him to build Australia’s only national art-house cinema network, theatrically release some of Australia and the world’s most iconic films, and has positioned him amongst the most highly respected people in the Australian film and cinema industry today.

Antonio is the Founder, Owner and Managing Director of Australia’s leading quality film distributor Palace Films, and the world’s largest network of independent cinemas Palace Cinemas, which includes screens across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Canberra.

Antonio’s passion for cinema began at a very early age and is a journey that started in the small town of Muro Lucano in Italy, where his father ran films in the local town hall. A story with striking resemblance to Tonatore’s cinematic classic Cinema Paradiso, Antonio took the passion instilled in him by his father and brought it with him when he immigrated to Australia in the late fifties. From the town halls of Melbourne’s suburbs in the early sixties, Antonio provided the local communities with films imported from Italy. He ran his first cinema, the Pix in 1963, and soon after, while running the Metropolitan cinema with his brother in Brunswick, built a large following of people from all walks of society with a thirst for quality foreign-language cinema options. click here for more information >>

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